And How Was Your Day?

[Joe]

Yesterday Christine and I were scheduled at 7:44 AM to fly from San Diego to Newark Airport in order to attend a family wedding this weekend. We were delayed in security and missed our flight. Meanwhile our luggage had been loaded on the plane and was enroute to Newark.

The airline scheduled us for the next flight at 1:05 PM. We decided to wait for that flight. Meanwhile there were fierce thunderstorms in the NYC area and our 1:05 flight was delayed with a tentative 3 hour delay.

We decided to return home and try again today.

Meanwhile, the original flight, that we had missed, was diverted to Syracuse and was delayed there for several hours. That flight originally scheduled to land at 4:30 did not arrive until 9:30 PM - a 5 hour delay.

The second flight that we passed up on finally took off at 3:30 PM and arrived at Newark Airport at 1:00 AM.

Ordinarily, I would have been pissed, but considering what Christine and I had been through the last 10 years, this all seemed trivial.

I called Hertz to change my reservation only to find out that by reducing my rental by one day, my rental charges went up $110.00. I'll save that battle until today.

Wish us luck as we are trying to fly to New Jersey again this morning.

Regards
Joe

PS. I called the airline about the luggage and it is safely stored at Newark.